Announcing the Demos for NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit
The July 2015 edition of NYC Media Lab’s newsletter. Like what you read? Sign up here.
Top of Mind:
Announcing the First Demos for NYC Media Lab’s 2015 Annual Summit
Friday, September 25, 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM
@ NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
In addition to a keynote presentation from Ted Bailey, CEO, Founder, and Chairman at Dataminr, NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit will include 12 workshops led by faculty from Columbia Journalism, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, Parsons the New School for Design, and more. The Summit will also feature 100 demonstrations of digital media research and prototypes from universities in NYC and beyond.
NYC Media Lab is excited to announce the first round of demos on display during the Summit’s “science fair.” See a small sample below, and read the full list of participating demos here.
- All in Pieces: an immersive projection installation that explores the experience of information fragmentation by transforming real-time Tweets into sound frequencies (Parsons MFADT)
- MASK: a collection of multi-user virtual reality masks that explore ways to shift identity (NYU ITP)
- ProjectedU: an interactive messaging platform utilizing the existing projection systems inside university classrooms to engage students before class begins (University of Delaware)
- Purple Politics: a media organization that makes it easy for millennials to be informed about politics and international affairs (CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)
- QuantFlaunt: records and analyzes user-submitted metrics, moods, and ideologies, and provides one representative “bottom-line” number (Pratt Institute)
- Revealuxion: an artistic, interactive garment for performance, using brainwaves, LEDs, and body movements (Parsons MFADT)
- word.camera: instant text camera & automated talking surveillance camera, leveraging AI algorithms & data resources to convert images to expressive text (NYU ITP)
$25,000 in Grants and Prizes for University Research on Data and Social Good
Calling all students, faculty, and university researchers — are you currently collaborating with a nonprofit/NGO on data analysis for a civic cause?
You are invited to present your research at Bloomberg’s Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) conference, taking place on September 28, 2015 in New York City. In partnership with the conference, NYC Media Lab is running an impact grant and prize program. Apply by August 1 for awards ranging from $1,000 to $7,500 for your research. Learn more here.
Questions about the program? Contact Amy Chen, NYC Media Lab Seed Project Manager at amy.chen@nycmedialab.org.
NYC Media Lab Welcomes 2 New Member Companies
NYC Media Lab is excited to share that A+E Networks and Singtel have joined NYC Media Lab’s roster of members.
R&D:
Researchers from Cornell Tech have developed Merlin Bird Photo ID, an identifier capable of recognizing 400 species of birds using computer vision. (more)
NYU Stern’s Foster Provost helps propose a new design using consumer-location data from mobile devices to identify similar users, which can be used for a variety of analytics-driven applications such as targeting advertisements and improving online interactions. (more)
Columbia University professor Shih-Fu Chang evaluates a method to search for three-dimensional objects in photographs from one query image. (more)
A study by City College of New York physicists Flaviano Morone and Hernán A. Makse suggests that “smaller is smarter” when it comes to influential superspreaders of information in social networks. (more)
Columbia researchers examine the impact of privacy choices on the quality of personalization systems (e.g. content recommendation technologies and social networks). (more)
Around Town:
NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit will take place on September 25, 2015 at NYU Skirball Center. From hands-on workshops to a pan-university demo expo, this is your opportunity to explore a wide range of prototype technologies, applications, and research projects. Register now for discounted tickets.
This evening, SVA MFA Interaction Design graduate Tash Wong will discuss the trials and tribulations of creative entrepreneurship. Register.
NYC Media Lab is pleased to partner with LoNyLa/TimeWave for “Mythos and Moxie,” a virtual reality hackathon hosted at NYU from July 10–12. The event is sold out, but you can add yourself to the waitlist here.
NYC BigApps is looking for the sharpest minds in tech and innovation to help solve some of New York City’s biggest challenges. Join their launch event on July 16 to learn more.
On July 16, NYU Game Center will help kick off the Come Out and Play Festival with “Come Out and Say,” an evening of talks from real-world game designers. Click here to register.
The Daily News Innovation Lab is hosting a media mixer on July 20 from 6–9pm. Join your media and tech peers at The DL’s private rooftop bar for complimentary drinks and conversation. Admission is free, but RSVP is required. Register here.
Taking place July 20–22, the DevCon5 HTML & Mobile App Developer Conference will explore the most effective tools, frameworks, and developer solutions. Speakers will include experts from Facebook, Netflix, and more. Friends of NYC Media Lab can receive 20% off tickets with the code NYCML20. Register here.
On July 29, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will offer a hands-on, one-evening workshop for journalists and media professionals on using smartphones to create and share content efficiently.
Taking place October 6–7 in Times Square, TV Xperience will bring together telcos, broadcasters, content providers, and more than 60 speakers for a deep dive look into how to monetize the second screen. Friends of NYC Media Lab can receive a 15% discount using the code NYC15. Register here.
Noteworthy:
Last month, technologists from BuzzFeed, NPR, the New York Times, and others gathered for our event “The Future of Notifications.” Justin Hendrix compiled the takeaways — read Parts One and Two.
The latest episode of the NYC Media Lab podcast features a conversation on the Internet of Things at this year’s Northside Innovation, part of the Northside Festival hosted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Also from the NYC Media Lab podcast: a conversation on technology and the future of storytelling with the digital anthropologist and journalist Frank Rose, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chief Digital Officer, Sree Sreenivasan.
Connected jewelry for brilliant moments. Apps for enhancing relationships and serendipitous encounters. See the lineup of ideas from the Fifth Annual NYU ITP Pitchfest.
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering plans to set up a startup incubator at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
How can you use a flashlight to make your fonts turn bold? Designers and hackers came together for Typographics, a design festival held last month at Cooper Union. See a sampling of some of the web-based projects from the festival here.
TechRadar takes five augmented reality and virtual reality devices for a spin, including an AR headset born out of Columbia University.
Ben Wellington, visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and the vision behind the NYC open data blog I Quant NY, combines improvisation, urban planning, and quantitative analysis to help planners make NYC a better place to live. He visited NYCEDC’s offices to talk about data and the city. Read the takeaways.
On the blog at the Journalism + Design program at The New School, director Heather Chaplin shares the backstory behind Data Toys, a “white paper” co-authored with John Sharp and Colleen Macklin that examined how game design, play theory, and systems modeling can create new journalism products.
In case you were wondering, the machines are not coming to kill us, says Yann LeCun, NYU professor and director of Facebook AI research lab.
Interested in becoming a member, exploring project opportunities, or just want to learn more? Contact us today at info@nycmedialab.org.
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